Mezentine
@mezentine.bsky.social
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Mezentine
@mezentine.bsky.social
· Apr 29
"Peace if possible.
Justice at any rate."
I came across that quote a few years ago while reading a biograph of Timuel Black. I think about those words.
I think about those words a lot.
Justice at any rate."
I came across that quote a few years ago while reading a biograph of Timuel Black. I think about those words.
I think about those words a lot.
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5 ILCS 805/15
at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
November 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
5 ILCS 805/15
Its a small matter of geography, but something that sticks in my mind is the fact that, of all the ways the state police could configure themselves in this space, they've put their vehicles between the protestors and the facility.
Earlier, in the first round of arrests, we saw state troopers drag one woman down the street over 100 feet to their wagon.
November 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Its a small matter of geography, but something that sticks in my mind is the fact that, of all the ways the state police could configure themselves in this space, they've put their vehicles between the protestors and the facility.
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ICYMI, @govpritzker.illinois.gov in October claimed state, county and local police at Broadview were working "to protect people’s ability to peacefully exercise their constitutional rights."
In the month since those same police have arrested about 80 protestors at Broadview.
In the month since those same police have arrested about 80 protestors at Broadview.
November 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
ICYMI, @govpritzker.illinois.gov in October claimed state, county and local police at Broadview were working "to protect people’s ability to peacefully exercise their constitutional rights."
In the month since those same police have arrested about 80 protestors at Broadview.
In the month since those same police have arrested about 80 protestors at Broadview.
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the scene currently.
i’d estimate the number of people arrested somewhere between 5-10 but it was honestly hard to tell amid the pandemonium.
protesters are signing, “whose side are you on? whose side are you on?”
i’d estimate the number of people arrested somewhere between 5-10 but it was honestly hard to tell amid the pandemonium.
protesters are signing, “whose side are you on? whose side are you on?”
November 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
the scene currently.
i’d estimate the number of people arrested somewhere between 5-10 but it was honestly hard to tell amid the pandemonium.
protesters are signing, “whose side are you on? whose side are you on?”
i’d estimate the number of people arrested somewhere between 5-10 but it was honestly hard to tell amid the pandemonium.
protesters are signing, “whose side are you on? whose side are you on?”
This is insane.
November 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This is insane.
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Here in Broadview, outside Chicago, a large group of faith leaders & protesters have gathered this morning outside of ICE’s detention center.
This looks like one of the largest protests on Beach St. in weeks, where the city of Broadview is still enforcing a small “free speech” zone. It’s packed.
This looks like one of the largest protests on Beach St. in weeks, where the city of Broadview is still enforcing a small “free speech” zone. It’s packed.
November 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Here in Broadview, outside Chicago, a large group of faith leaders & protesters have gathered this morning outside of ICE’s detention center.
This looks like one of the largest protests on Beach St. in weeks, where the city of Broadview is still enforcing a small “free speech” zone. It’s packed.
This looks like one of the largest protests on Beach St. in weeks, where the city of Broadview is still enforcing a small “free speech” zone. It’s packed.
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this is something where calling your gop senator might actually have an effect. idk. lie and tell them you voted for trump. what the hell.
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
this is something where calling your gop senator might actually have an effect. idk. lie and tell them you voted for trump. what the hell.
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John Kennedy has been signaling he'd vote to release the epstein files for weeks, maybe months it looks like.
I think it's reasonably likely they get Collins, Murkowski, McConnell, Paul, Tillis, Kennedy at this point. They'd need seven more.
which...maybe? I just don't know.
I think it's reasonably likely they get Collins, Murkowski, McConnell, Paul, Tillis, Kennedy at this point. They'd need seven more.
which...maybe? I just don't know.
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
John Kennedy has been signaling he'd vote to release the epstein files for weeks, maybe months it looks like.
I think it's reasonably likely they get Collins, Murkowski, McConnell, Paul, Tillis, Kennedy at this point. They'd need seven more.
which...maybe? I just don't know.
I think it's reasonably likely they get Collins, Murkowski, McConnell, Paul, Tillis, Kennedy at this point. They'd need seven more.
which...maybe? I just don't know.
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One of the only constructivist churches in the world, in Kouvola, Finland, is scheduled for demolition because the declining population of the town no longer matches up with the cost of maintenance.
See things while you can.
See things while you can.
November 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
One of the only constructivist churches in the world, in Kouvola, Finland, is scheduled for demolition because the declining population of the town no longer matches up with the cost of maintenance.
See things while you can.
See things while you can.
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Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those who celebrate.
November 14, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those who celebrate.
Man, this Wesley Dodds The Sandman series DC did is really good. A really fun period piece about a character archetype we don’t really have reference for anymore, a sort of sensitive bespectacled Bruce Wayne. He’s so earnest. He really believes in being a crimefighter.
November 14, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Man, this Wesley Dodds The Sandman series DC did is really good. A really fun period piece about a character archetype we don’t really have reference for anymore, a sort of sensitive bespectacled Bruce Wayne. He’s so earnest. He really believes in being a crimefighter.
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in 3rd grade there was this teacher, Mr Freed, who would go off on these long tangents no 3rd grader could possibly follow about free trade and America’s rise as a global superpower, and lately I have had two thoughts
1) Mr Freed knew this shit about tariffs in 1993
2) wtf was up with Mr Freed
1) Mr Freed knew this shit about tariffs in 1993
2) wtf was up with Mr Freed
November 14, 2025 at 2:19 AM
in 3rd grade there was this teacher, Mr Freed, who would go off on these long tangents no 3rd grader could possibly follow about free trade and America’s rise as a global superpower, and lately I have had two thoughts
1) Mr Freed knew this shit about tariffs in 1993
2) wtf was up with Mr Freed
1) Mr Freed knew this shit about tariffs in 1993
2) wtf was up with Mr Freed
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I’ve got AGS. My biggest fear is emergency healthcare. Not a single nurse or doctor I’ve interacted with since I developed AGS has had any idea what it is, and most act like they think it’s imaginary.
A 47-year-old airline pilot from New Jersey is the first person known to have died from alpha-gal syndrome, a red meat allergy caused by a tick bite.
First death reported from meat allergy caused by tick bite
After months of investigation, researchers confirmed that a New Jersey man died of a tickborne allergy called alpha-gal syndrome after eating a hamburger.
nbcnews.to
November 14, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I’ve got AGS. My biggest fear is emergency healthcare. Not a single nurse or doctor I’ve interacted with since I developed AGS has had any idea what it is, and most act like they think it’s imaginary.
Huh. Wild.
learning that there are a lot of ppl on here who are unfamiliar with the late john mcafee's posts
November 14, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Huh. Wild.
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I'll match up to $500, reply or DM me your receipts. let's get these folks home.
outside of individual donations to gofundmes and such, one helpful destination for your money right now is this bond fund. everyone being released from broadview needs to pay $1500 bond, which is obviously insane. it's going to cost like $925k to successfully spring 615 people linktr.ee/mw_bondfund
Midwest Immigration Bond Fund | Linktree
We formed in 2020 & began paying out immigration bonds for IL, IN, WI, and KY.
linktr.ee
November 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I'll match up to $500, reply or DM me your receipts. let's get these folks home.
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this is significantly fewer than the average number of americans who die each month, and administrative updates take to work through the system, absent substantially more context, this is meaningless
Brooke Rollins: "SNAP is a broken program. SNAP is full of corruption. We found 186,000 dead people."
November 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
this is significantly fewer than the average number of americans who die each month, and administrative updates take to work through the system, absent substantially more context, this is meaningless
This is very well done.
You might have read something about Ross Douthat’s podcast last week. Becca Rothfeld reviews the new book by Leah Libresco Sargeant, one of the guests on that show. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
Review | A conservative argues we need to value ‘women as women.’ But what does that mean?
Leah Libresco Sargeant argues that we need to better acknowledge human need and vulnerability, and that valuing women “as women” is a start
www.washingtonpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This is very well done.
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So yes, as many feminist/gender/sexuality scholars and writers are noting, it all really does come back to a political movement built on a shared idea and that shared idea is rape, the idealism of rape, the social purpose and necessity of rape, and the domination and hierarchy it creates, all of it.
November 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
So yes, as many feminist/gender/sexuality scholars and writers are noting, it all really does come back to a political movement built on a shared idea and that shared idea is rape, the idealism of rape, the social purpose and necessity of rape, and the domination and hierarchy it creates, all of it.
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Whether Kelly herself is in on this, idk and idc, it is her audience who is stewing in the ambiance of this culture, a culture that is trying to make a big comeback. The idea that it is just “normal” to want a girl at her “peak reproductive age” is a regular talking point at Turning Points USA lol
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Whether Kelly herself is in on this, idk and idc, it is her audience who is stewing in the ambiance of this culture, a culture that is trying to make a big comeback. The idea that it is just “normal” to want a girl at her “peak reproductive age” is a regular talking point at Turning Points USA lol
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People are making their jokes but this is white Christian culture writ large. Women, girls alike are raised to understand that men goes after young girls because its their sex that makes them virtuous and their pursuit is just a natural thing that happens. Boys will be boys, men will be men etc.
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
People are making their jokes but this is white Christian culture writ large. Women, girls alike are raised to understand that men goes after young girls because its their sex that makes them virtuous and their pursuit is just a natural thing that happens. Boys will be boys, men will be men etc.
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It appears Magistrate Judge Laura McNally has arrived for the morning's inspection, along with a team of attorneys.
"Hold them accountable!" A protestor yells repeatedly.
"They had a week to clean things up, remember that!" Another says through a megaphone.
"Hold them accountable!" A protestor yells repeatedly.
"They had a week to clean things up, remember that!" Another says through a megaphone.
November 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
It appears Magistrate Judge Laura McNally has arrived for the morning's inspection, along with a team of attorneys.
"Hold them accountable!" A protestor yells repeatedly.
"They had a week to clean things up, remember that!" Another says through a megaphone.
"Hold them accountable!" A protestor yells repeatedly.
"They had a week to clean things up, remember that!" Another says through a megaphone.
Its interesting, while the 2015 segments are about getting wooed by big money purchase offers in the esports scene, the energy is a spot on match for how a lot of stuff felt running a startup as a gang of young 20-somethings at the time. That whole period was so weird.
Today I learned that they also made a show for Paramount about competitive League of Legends and its up for free on YouTube? And its incredible?
November 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Its interesting, while the 2015 segments are about getting wooed by big money purchase offers in the esports scene, the energy is a spot on match for how a lot of stuff felt running a startup as a gang of young 20-somethings at the time. That whole period was so weird.